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Katie Martin

Markets Columnist

Katie Martin is a columnist and member of the FT's editorial board. She writes the weekly Long View column on market trends as well as other opinion pieces, and appears weekly on the Unhedged podcast.

Previously, she spent four years as the FT's markets editor, and also several years on the FT's live news service. Prior to joining the FT in 2015, she spent 11 years at the Dow Jones/Wall St Journal group, also covering markets.

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  • Thursday, 17 April, 2025
    Unhedged Podcast22 min listen
    Nvidia’s bad day

    Restrictions on sales to China bring down Nvidia and raise questions about tech

  • Wednesday, 16 April, 2025
    Brexit
    Advice to shell-shocked Americans from Brexit Britain

    Britons are skilled at navigating the humiliation unleashed by political and market chaos — allow us to give you some tips

    Andy Carter illustration of a person sheltering under an umbrella decorated with a Union Jack while another person dashes to avoid a downpour of dollar and red graph line symbols as they fall from the sky
  • Tuesday, 15 April, 2025
    Unhedged Podcast20 min listen
    Will China back down?

    Beijing may have more leverage than President Donald Trump thought

  • Friday, 11 April, 2025
    The Long ViewPolitical risk and investment
    Trump has added a political risk premium to US assets

    Parking money in America is no longer the routine, fuss-free, neutral option

    Traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange
  • Friday, 11 April, 2025
    Political Fix podcast44 min listen
    Markets or Trump: who’s in charge?

    Plus: a stocktake of the political year so far

  • Thursday, 10 April, 2025
    Unhedged Podcast22 min listen
    The real cost of a trade war

    Have Trump’s policies hurt the US’s ability to borrow?

  • Wednesday, 9 April, 2025
    FT News Briefing podcast11 min listen
    Markets might not have hit the bottom yet

    President Donald Trump says the US will proceed with an additional 50% tariff on China

  • Tuesday, 8 April, 2025
    Unhedged Podcast23 min listen
    Surveying the wreckage

    As markets bounce around, China announces its own tariffs

  • Monday, 7 April, 2025
    Instant InsightTrump tariffs
    Markets could get a lot worse — and quickly

    The concern now among bankers and hedge fund managers is that something, somewhere could break

    A delivery worker walks past a stock market indicator board in Tokyo
  • Saturday, 29 March, 2025
    The Long ViewEquities
    The great European disentanglement from US stocks has only just started

    A long rebalancing of investor portfolios is likely to be under way that could be painful for America

    The Euronext stock exchange in Paris
  • Thursday, 27 March, 2025
    ExplainerFT Film30 min
    Why governments are 'addicted' to debt | FT Film

    With developed economies around the world loaded up with debt, at what point does the bond market break?

    The global debt addiction
  • Tuesday, 25 March, 2025
    Unhedged Podcast24 min listen
    Can Trump drive down bond yields?

    To fund tax cuts, the administration wants cheaper money

  • Friday, 21 March, 2025
    The Long ViewMarkets
    Europe still needs to earn the confidence of investors

    Market hopes rest on gaining the benefit of the doubt that the US commands

    The Euro sculpture
  • Thursday, 20 March, 2025
    Unhedged Podcast23 min listen
    Dour Fed, cheery market

    Is uncertainty about the president already priced in?

  • Wednesday, 19 March, 2025
    Trump tariffs
    ‘Stock vigilantes’ are more myth than reality

    Trump’s administration has expressed more tolerance for the economic fallout from tariffs than expected

    Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange
  • Saturday, 15 March, 2025
    FT News Briefing podcast18 min listen
    Swamp Notes: Why Trump may want a weaker dollar

    The US currency is down. Does President Donald Trump and his team want it that way?

  • Friday, 14 March, 2025
    The Long ViewMarkets
    Why it might get worse for US stocks

    Uncertainty over Trump policy will soon hit the economy with few short-term catalysts for a turnaround

    Morning sunlight falls on the facade of the New York Stock Exchange
  • Thursday, 13 March, 2025
    Unhedged Podcast28 min listen
    Make America Gyrate Again

    As Trump flip-flops, the Unhedged team visits the IE Business School in Madrid

  • Friday, 7 March, 2025
    FT News Briefing podcast11 min listen
    Tariff uncertainty continues market volatility

    Wall Street extends slide sparked by fears over Donald Trump’s on-off trade war

  • Tuesday, 4 March, 2025
    Unhedged Podcast21 min listen
    Can the Fed stay independent?

    Trump may have opened a path to control over the US central bank

  • Tuesday, 4 March, 2025
    US dollar
    Investors dare to imagine a world beyond the dollar

    The US could dismantle its own exorbitant privilege by pushing the big bond market beasts into the arms of others

    US President Donald Trump
  • Friday, 28 February, 2025
    The Long ViewMarkets
    Why Trump has gone quiet on the stock market

    The mood in markets has darkened and the central narrative around trades based on the president’s policies has soured

    Traders work on the New York Stock Exchange next to a Donald Trump picture
  • Friday, 21 February, 2025
    The Long ViewAsset allocation
    Geopolitical rupture sparks quiet market rebellion

    It does not take a deep scratch beneath the surface to uncover investor nerves

    US President Donald Trump
  • Thursday, 20 February, 2025
    Unhedged Podcast23 min listen
    Is the IPO market broken?

    New public companies are fewer and weaker

  • Thursday, 20 February, 2025
    US dollar
    Trump’s freewheeling disruption could extend to the dollar

    The president’s conviction that US currency strength gives trading partners an unfair advantage is well known

    A pile of US dollar notes are handed over a counter
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